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Created by the Georgia Council for the Arts, this guide provides a useful entry for local and state arts agencies and arts organizations newly interested in evaluation. The guide is designed not only as an introduction to evaluation, but to...

The Arts and Civic Engagement: A Field Guide for Practice, Research, and Policy presents a comprehensive strategy through which policymakers, researchers, and practitioners can collaborate to bring a fuller understanding of the arts’ civic impact to...

Changing World’s Literacy and Cultural Connections (LCC) is an in-school program to enhance instruction in arts, literacy and cultural awareness. Through the program students learn new ways to write, produce art, and make connections between...

BRITDOC’s Impact Field Guide & Toolkit is a series of modules that guide users to develop an evaluation approach for creative projects. Originally designed for use with documentary films, the guide and toolkit provide relevant information for...

If you’re thinking about becoming a photography professional, you’re going to need to take some photography courses and learn the basics. However, there’s more to it than just knowing how to get the best exposures and how to light an area. There...

Aesthetic Perspectives is a framework developed by Animating Democracy to enhance understanding and evaluation of Arts for Change—creative work at the intersection of arts and community/civic engagement, community development, and justice. Arts for...

In the Funder Companion to Animating Democracy’s framework, Aesthetic Perspectives: Attributes of Excellence in Arts for Change, author Chris Dwyer of RMC Research offers ideas and insights to help funders apply the framework to address their needs...

The Performing Artist Companion to Animating Democracy’s framework, Aesthetic Perspectives: Attributes of Excellence in Arts for Change, offers ideas and insights to help performing artists and performance companies apply the framework to address...

The Curator Companion to Animating Democracy’s framework, Aesthetic Perspectives: Attributes of Excellence in Arts for Change, offers ideas and insights to help curators working in/with visual arts and time- and performance-based projects to enhance...

The Educator Companion to Animating Democracy’s framework, Aesthetic Perspectives: Attributes of Excellence in Arts for Change, offers ideas and insights to help educators and students apply the framework in curriculum development, faculty/student...

The Evaluator / Researcher Companion guide to Animating Democracy’s framework, Aesthetic Perspectives: Attributes of Excellence in Arts for Change, offers ideas and insights to help evaluators and researchers apply the framework to address their...

Diving into Racial Equity written by Vanessa Whang, examines the MAP Fund’s deep examination of one of its foundational priorities—racial equity in arts and culture grantmaking—and ongoing efforts to change practices toward this goal. The MAP Fund...

Animating Democracy, a program of Americans for the Arts, and A Blade of Grass created the Municipal-Artist Partnership Guide (MAP), a practical digital resource to help artists and city leadership, as well as organizations supporting their efforts...